Lusatia

Nation name  commonly called 'The Federation of Lusatia, is a Military Democracy in the North-East of the continent. It is bordered on the East by Gotham, the West by Darath, and the North by Umi no Tani. Lusatia covers 566,560 square kilometers and has an estimated population of 100 million. nation comprises of number of 14 Duchies/Federal states; Mazovia, Mazury, Podlasie, Karpaty, Lesser Lusatia, Augusty, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Greater Lusatia, Bordeaux, Pomorze, Vilnius, Courland and Liubice.

Lusatia is an nation that is, in relativity with most of its neighbours, a rather old country, although the modern iteration and politically unified version of Lusatia is a new concept.
The nation is home to a few races unique to it, with a landscape that is surprisingly beautiful and diverse despite the pre-war junk and wreckage left behind from the nuclear war, suggesting that their territory was mostly untouched by the war.

## **Etymology**

Lusatia is a translated version of Łużyce, which means "Water-Hole" and "Swamps", which refers to the countless Lusatian swamps and the great lake in the south connected to the sea by a large river.

The standard way to refer to a citizen of Lusatia is as a "Lusatian".

## **History**

### **Migration Period** *550 - 590A.D.*

The Lusatian people were first recorded during the Migration period on the continent, as humans settling on the continent, during the reign of the Astrostatzkian empire across most of the north-east, they have first been recorded when they settled the lands near the great lake close to the fiefdoms of the Astrostatzkian empire. They settled the lands known as Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, Greater Lusatia and Mazovia.

While the lords next to them were generally cooperative for the first few decades of their migration to this new territory, a regime change quickly changed this.

### **Age of Piast** *590 - 666A.D.*

The New Astrostatzkian Emperor decided that this bordering Chiefdom was a horde of barbarians that should be subjugated, and would allow them access to the great lake.

What the Astrostatzkian Emperor did not do however was study his enemy, as the Lusatians had been steadily building fortifications and new towns since they came over, from at least 500A.D. they had their first fort established in the area where the High chief ruled. And by the time of 800A.D. the Lusatians had created many a town and castle, albeit created with limited materials, seldom from stone, and mostly from wood.
As a result the first army that the Emperor sent was caught off guard by the fortifications set up by the Lusatians, since they had not brought any siege weaponry or engineers with them to be able to build any themselves. Thus the army was dealt with rather quickly by the Lusatian horde, sending them back with a bloody nose.

Of course, the Emperor did not take to this very well, and sent reinforcements to his army, sending them off to burn and raid the lands held by Lusatia, and this behaviour continued for at least 100 years, with no clear victor, until a man called 'Piast' appeared. Wether he was an opportunist, a power hungry fool, or a madman, all that is clear is that he managed to organize this long neglected horde of Lusatian nobles and peasants into an army that could follow orders.
During the siege of Poznan, Piast had lit torches near the besieging army to show that their enemies were encamping to attempt to reinforce the town. Little by little, the torches flickered out each day, leaving only a small amount of torches lit after at least four days.

This tricked the Astrostatzkian commander into thinking that the Lusatians were deserting from Piast's army, and he decided that he could send a detachment of half his army to crush Piast. But during the 'Battle of the Frozen Swamp', he was sorely mistaken. Only a small amount of Lusatians were visible to the enemy during the opening stages of combat, but as they advanced, they found themselves surrounded in the middle of a frozen swamp, with rather thin ice coating the surface.
While marching it was easy to keep it from cracking, however in the chaos of battle, the soldiers found themselves breaking the ice and sinking into the swamp in their heavy armour. This was a disastrous combination of both withering arrowfire and environmental disadvantages for the Astrostatzkian detachment, and soon the found themselves at the mercy of Piast. He captured them and soon turned his sword at the besieging army led by 'Hans Zintler'.
He had not expected his army to lose to such a rag tag band of soldiers, and as such, when Piast came up behind his resting forces with plenty of cavaliers to spare, he hastily arranged a defense, but he was too late, the cavalry was causing chaos in their camp and managed to kill Hans himself, when the infantry caught up with the cavalry, the battle was already over, and Piast managed to capture an entire legion.
He soon followed this up with extensive siege campaigns in the rather sparse and undefended lands known as Bordon (Bordeaux in modern Lusatia) Lesser Lusatia and Pomorze, and eventually managed to get a peace treaty with the overly prideful Emperor.
From such a great deed, he managed to get crowned as the first king of Lusatia in 918, and the legitimacy to back it up. He lived until 976, creating the foundation for a kingdom, with a new noble class to back it up, and to manage the more remote regions of Lusatia, and to solidify his rulership amongst his neighbours he converted to the religion of Catholic Zionism, converting his populace and nobles to the religion in order to have greater stability.

### **The Crusades** *666 - 1253A.D.*

Over the course of this timeline, the crusades are the most prolific part of Lusatian history, and it all starts with the death of Piast the wheelwright in 976, and following up with his heir, Mieszko the Builder, who managed to follow in his fathers footsteps and developed the realm further, with him building new infrastructure, and expanding towns, which would allow the Lusatian merchant class to grow, and to attract foreign traders. He also expanded upon the idea of the new noble class Piast created, which would eventually become the Knight, as a lesser lord in the retinue of a Greater Lord.
This managed to improve communication with the furthest reaches of his nation, and to quickly respond to any invasion with a levy army. He also hired foreign Astrostatzkian builders to upgrade his own demesne to become similar to Imperial standards, with practical fortifications, and the use of stone. His work ended in the year 1047 at a ripe age of 71 for the standards of the day, and after his death, his heirs and their heirs were not exactly important, they improved the realm slightly, worsened it slightly, essentially typical monarchist failures.

This changed in the year 1200A.D. upon the rulership of the King known as Lech the Pious, who was a fervent believer in the Catholic religion. And as he saw the religious turmoil beginning in Astrostatzkia he saw it as an insult to his religion, that a heretic thought he could change its belief. This heretic religion was known as 'Lutheran Zionism'.
He immediately set out to subjugate any rebelling nobles, and with the help of the still catholic parts of the Astrostatzkian empire, he took fort after fort, and province after province in the empire. Some may call him a zealot, but many historians point to the fact that this was clearly a political move to absorb more land into his Kingdom.
From numerous crusades, the Kingdom of Lusatia managed to absorb the lands of Mazury, Podlasie, Vilnius and Courland from the Kingdom of Gotham, under the control of Astrostatzkia, as they were the main battlegrounds of the heretic reform, with the rising power of Rat papism, however during these wars, some astrostatzkian territory seceded, such as the merchants republic of Augusty.
The crusades officially ended on the year 1553A.D. and although the world changed dramatically with technology racing forward, the kings of Lusatia had never ceased their ambition of cleansing the north east of all heresy. The crusades only ended at 1553A.D. due to a massive defeat in what is now the desert in between the corelands of modern Astrostatzkia, Gotham and Lusatia. They would never again encroach upon the now weakened Astrostatzkian empire.

### **The Consolidation** *1253 - 1914A.D.*

During this period of Lusatian History, it was relatively more peaceful than the crusade era, as it was less focused upon warfare and the acquisition of lands. During this era, Lusatian arts and culture developed massively, and their weapons had also grown along with it. Infact, at this point in time, Lusatia was making much money off their weapons manufacturing and selling it to numerous rebel groups, but soon they would be making an absolute fortune from what would come.
During the Gothamite rebellion of 1776, which had been cooking within the Gothamite ranks for several years now, Lusatia had sold almost all their surplus weaponry to the Gothamite rebels, allowing them to easily shake off the Astrostatzkian yoke, and establish themselves as a soverign country under the leadership of Charles Wayne.
At the same time as this happened, the merchants republic of Augusty was absorbed into the Kingdom of Lusatia through the bribing of officials and propaganda, thus allowing the Lusatia to have all of its current core-lands, and the territory of Lusatia never changed much after this period until the modern era.

After this revolutionary war however, the Lusatians were quick to not trust them, as their leadership appeared to be untrustworthy, and their nation barbaric to say the least. Not only that, but while your average person could not detect magic from it, they could still feel that something was not right with Gotham, and its lands.
Countless border skirmishes and even fullblown wars happened between Gotham and Lusatia over this period, with Astrostatzkia changing its stance towards Lusatia to be more co-operative and friendly as they saw in them an ally against the Gothamite menace. Many times the Astrostatzkian army attempted to retake Gotham, but were always pushed back to their homelands.
Lusatia and Astrostatzkia many times have traded weapons and training methods with each other in order to make sure that both of them would be able to fully withstand the Gothamite hordes.
And although diplomacy with the Astrostatzkians was paramount to Lusatia for their interests, they also discovered the island of Umi no Tani, and Darath during this time. And later on they discovered Emeros, and down the river of the continent, they discovered the island of Dys. At this time, Dys was fairly remote, and although they showed signs of wanting more power, they were in no position to threaten the north-east.

### **The First Northern War/Interwar Period** *1914 - 1936A.D.*

The height of the tension began at the year 1914, when the Astrostatzkian terrorist Gunter Hess shot an Dwarf Archduke on his tour through his land to survey it. Shortly after, the Dwarven Kingdom sent a letter of demands to Astrostatzkia, proclaiming that if these demands were not met, they would attack Astrostatzkia in revenge. Of course, they never accepted this letter, and told them that they would never follow their demands.

Gotham after hearing this told Astrostatzkia that they should sign the treaty unless they wish for war with Gotham, Astrostatzkia refused this and called upon their Ally Lusatia to the first great war. This war was the war that would shape the future of the north east for generations to come, and it began with a sneak attack by Gotham into Lusatia, but although they had initial success with their mass of troops flooding through a single point in the river, the Lusatian army had mobilised by that point, and attacked the invaders, pushing them back across the river with some encirclements here and there.
Eventually after a bit of back and forth offensives between each other, the two powers decided to set up trenches across their sides of the river, with anyone who crosses it being a dead man. The Astrostatzkians and dwarves meanwhile were fighting in the desert, with Gothamite troops and Lusatian troops attempting to reinforce their allies.
This continued for at least four more years of needless bloodshed until the powers on the continent decided that they could not take more of this. The powers signed a peace treaty that was not a treaty of peace, but a mere ceasefire as they later would find out.

Later, Gotham and Lusatia would be finding new ways to gain land. The first was when Gotham forced a Astrostatzkian province to hold a referendum on who they wanted to join, of course, due to the votes being rigged, the Gothamites won the votes, and the Astrostatzkian northern territory joined with Gotham during the year 1919.
It did not help the situation that the Astrostatzkians had a communist uprising at this point in time, and as such, Astrostatzkia had no wish to fight another war with Gotham. Specifically the rebels arose in the area now known as the central desert in the modern day, and had superior organization and leadership to the old astrostatzkian generals and their crippled bureaucracy.
Lusatia had eventually volunteered to rid them of their red plague, however during the peace deals, the Lusatians had stolen the southern half of the central region from the Astrostatzkians, claiming that they did most of the work, and deserved the land as they could actually keep it. Needless to say the post war Astrostatzkian government was in no position to argue, and peace was achieved during the year 1921.

Around 9 years of peace soon reigned, and the countries of the north east enjoyed economic regrowth along with population growth. However as the year 1931 came around, the nation of Donovia, a nation that used to exist before the nuclear apocalypse, an economic superpower in its own right, had a stock market crash, and as a result of their major connections with the nations of the north east economically, the north east certainly felt it.
The Lusatians in particular had lost more money than they could make, and as a result had to make major cuts to their military and other services, which made the country weaker, however this was nothing compared to the damage done to Astrostatzkia and Gotham, who was the worst hit, with Gothamites searching through trash in order to survive in the country, as a result, they had to resort to making large reforms to keep their country together.
Astrostatzkia on the other hand was experiencing the same problem, but worse, where they would get also political revolts rampant through their country, this combined with the horrible economy resulted in the complete collapse of the country, resulting in a new political entity arising through the nation, claiming revenge for all misdeeds done to them, and greatness once more...

### **The Second War***1936 - 1943A.D.*

The new Astrostatzkian Government in power was called the Greater Astro Reich, with its main achievement being the fact that they are the first officially Fascist Government in the North-East.
Their first action was to annex the nations south of them in the year 1936, where they used their new form of warfare to destroy the Dwarf kingdom of Niovalla in a couple of months, next they attacked the weak nation of emeros and destroyed them in an even shorter amount of time.
After consolidating rule in these territories, the Astrostatzkians had made a request to the Gothamites and Lusatians to get back their territories, and of course, being unprepared for war, these two nations had agreed in 1937, although soon after they revived their war economy to get ready for the inevitable war with the Neo-Astrostatzkian empire. The next ultimatum presented was a demand for the ancient astrostatzkian territory of Augusty and eastern Gotham to return to them during the year 1938.
Being ready for war, the Gothamites had refused, and as such began the second Northern war. It began with the disastrous defeat of the Allied northern army, with Astrostatzkians testing out their new theories in war upon a worthy enemy. Gothamites were normally used to attacking their enemies instead of defending, so as a result their doctrinal knowledge was sorely lacking, especially after the great war, where they were not used to a mobile war against such a foe. Lusatia had during the beginning of the engagement sent an expeditionary force to Gotham in order to reinforce their front against Astrostatzkia.

Not only was that an issue, but the Gothamites were also lacking much defensible terrain on their south, as the rivers were flowing in such a way that it would only prevent a nation such as Lusatia from attacking properly. Soon the Astrostatzkians had taken over the capital of Gotham, and had almost the entirety of the nation under their thumb, even destroying and encircling the 160,000 man strong expeditionary force sent from Lusatia.
However, what went wrong for them is that they underestimated the Lusatian army, which was able to actually repel the Astrostatzkian army that was sent towards them. The Lusatian army finally managed to grind the momentum of the Astrostatzkian empire to a complete stop within the lands Lower Silesia and Lesser Lusatia. This had officially happened after the Lusatian army had recieved defeat after defeat within the flat terrain of the central province that they had annexed during the 1920's.

Lusatia was an anomaly for them, as they were not used to fighting in irregular conditions with their highly mobile forces, what made this worse was the fact that the Lusatian army was not as static as the Gothamite army, which relied on Great war tactics by the time of this war. Contrary to the way Gotham worked, Lusatia was much more focused on mobile warfare, with heavy emphasis on speed and maneuverability, which while less developed than the Astrostatzkian doctrine, allowed Lusatia to adapt their tactics much more easier than Gotham, using their considerable armaments of tanks, planes and even artillery to support their army as they advanced through the central province, counter-attacking Astrostatzkia and breaching through all their gains, and even going past pre-war borders.
The Gothamite Government in exile, seeing an opportunity to make a move, decided to do a backhand blow upon the invaders, fighting a war of attrition with an enemy that had a harder time to acquire supplies and weapons through their limited supply lines that were currently being under threat of the Lusatian expedition.
Eventually, being under siege, the Astrostatzkians had began being beaten back, with rapid land losses to these two collossus nations. With the war being ended by the year 1943. The two nations being rather exhausted by the war, decided to not punish the Astrostatzkians too harshly, with a more lenient approach to their punishment, fearful for another uprising by them against the status quo again.

### **The End Times***1943 - PresentA.D.*

The following years had enjoyed some peace, with the Lusatiand and Gothamites after the war agreeing to never again allow for conflict to take place on the north east, with them both signing an official pact of friendship and alliances. And during the year of 1961, the country of Lusatia had submitted a request to the Tanian revolt on wether they needed help with their building efforts, they had made diplomacy with the Tanians before, however this was the first time they managed to actually get a good relationship with them, some trade deals that were beneficial to both parties were made after this, along with an invitation to the North - East Alliance, which would offer protection to the new nation of Umi no Tani from any incursions from scientists that tried to ever invade Umi no Tani.
Now...During the year of 2015, after relative peace on the North-East, two major nations on earth had began dropping nuclear weapons on each other, with disastrous effect, many countries such as Astrostatzkia and Emeros had suffered from this war, along with what is known nowadays as the 'Green ring' in the north west being affected, leaving the entirety of what was known as the island of Darath back then to cease to exist, the refugees relocating to a new location west of Lusatia, on a large island.

While Lusatia was untouched by the nuclear war, the event of a nuclear bomb being dropped on the central province owned by Astrostatzkia and Lusatia, had forced the people into hiding, with their territory owned in the modern day central province turning into a veritable desert, owned by no one for a very long time. After the nuclear war, the people came out once more, and attempted to rebuild, however, most of the world was in technological decline, and Lusatia was no exception, with their technology degrading to the levels of the 1920's.
Another issue the people of Lusatia had encountered is the nuclear radiation that seeped in throughout the years or hiding turning the people within into scale bound humans with several features missing.

### **The Year of Our Emperor** *Present - 214A.D.*

The Lusatians while disorganized, with their pre-war government attempting to organize the nation to be as it was before the war, was absolutely ineffective, and the nation balkanized into many different provinces. The previous King had been forced to make a new nation in the province of Mazovia, where he would consolidate power. The King's name was Radoslav Lechowicz, who would be the first king of post war Lusatia. He reigned until year 73AD, where he had managed to conquer the neighbouring province of Greater Lusatia, Lower Silesia and Lesser Lusatia.

The country also attracted many races during this post war time; these races would be the Lesny, plantmen who were Immigrants from the far western Bouquet of Auralune, and claimed to be exiled due to their 'cannibalistic' behaviour towards local plantlife and were despised by locals. The Kruk, who are Ravenmen came after, and were travellers from the north-western swamps, who made a reputation amongst the Lusatian people as good fighters, honest and with a good attitude towards their allies, although slightly too edgy for their tastes.
Along with this there were immigrants from Umi no Tani who were of robotic origin, and robots who were pulled out of the pre-war wreckages, who had their own sentience and emotions, the Immigrants in particular felt that they were being neglected and treated as underdeveloped savages and 'beneath them' by their comrades in Umi no Tani.
Lastly there were the Skeletons, who were corpses revived via the curse of Lusatia which summons inanimate objects and takes control of them through the souls they inhabited, of course Skeletons are not as hostile as this curse, they appear to be made in the same way as possessed artifacts and objects however. They were accepted into the population as equals to the Lusatian people, with all these races getting along quite nicely due to their similar natures and tastes.

The next kings would manage to also do the very same, with their efforts getting better and better as time went on, until the year of 197AD, which is the date in which King Adrian Lechowicz was crowned after his political and military pursuits on the continent, exiling his brother and murdering his father. He proceeded to aid the also fledgling nation of Astrostatzkia in its current civil war through sending the Airmobile Division known as the Damned 33rd under command by Hartman Hallenburg, who commanded other units under the umbrella term 'The Blue Army'.

After these events, the Lusatians and their neighbours were relatively undisturbed, with peace reigning once more, with some tensions being raised by events happening across the world, one of which being the acquisition of a Wasp Princess and the retinue she held, as they were exiled from their home country due to a violent revolution by Skall the usurper.
Latest news reports that Lusatia underwent reforms to transform from a Kingdom into a Military Democracy, which only allows Military personnel to vote for their leaders, and has an actual Constitution to prevent leaders from abusing their power.

## **Geography**

### **Geography**

Generally Lusatia is characterized by its rather diverse environments, however, most of it is standard flat plains. The types of environments in this nation can be, in order of how common they are; Plains, Swamps, Lakes, Taiga, Hills, Mountains and Outback. With the inclusion of the southern Central province, the Outback is bumped up to be more common than Mountains.

The coastline of Lusatia is mostly plains and rocky crags, and the beaches are not 'special' in any way, however they are in no way polluted unlike most of the world's beaches, and can be accepted as being rather nice looking beaches for most people. What's special about Lusatian sand is that its not coarse, its not rough, and it doesnt get eeeeeverywhere.

Southern Lusatia can be noted as a swampy territory with a slight amount of outback which is shared with the Western areas of Lusatia, which for the people living there, and the government, is rather easy to traverse, which is helped by the fact that there is actual infrastructure for people passing through. There are some Hills in this area too, along with the great lake to the south, which is controlled by the Lusatians, and is a popular place to fish in, with a slight chance to find some junk...

Northern Lusatia is a more Forested area, which can be more accurately called Taiga, and is more snowy. Interestingly enough, there is also mostly minimal swamp presence in this area too, which allows for some hilarity for any locals as any passing traveller gets dunked in as they fall through the ice covered swamps.

Eastern Lusatia is the only place where you can find the highest concentration of Hills and Mountains as you can find the mountain chain called the Reichswald. The province of Augusty is the most mountainous area, with Lesser Lusatia and Karpaty being the second most, with a high concentration of hills.
Western Lusatia is mostly plains, and is characterized by the coastline which has been explained already. But the west can also be characterized by its outback in the inland, where the Lesny tend to like visiting and living in, and their lifestyles are supported by the local infrastructure, where if you want to pass through it, you can do it. Its also safe believe it or not.

### **Climate**

Generally an area like the Western parts of Lusatia are a mix of Arid and Semi-Arid environments due to their proximity to the Outback, and it can vary from a more temperate environment to a more hot environment in the west, along with this, rain seldom rains in the inland provinces of the west and the rest of the coast recieves much more.

The Northern area of Lusatia is known for its Taiga envrionment, which means the land is more humid and also in some extreme cases, sub-arctic, which is the reason why it is a taiga, but it isnt as hostile as it sounds, as for most of the year, the temperature is very manageable for the people living there.

The Eastern area of Lusatia is known for its Arid environment near the central province, and on the other side, more colder and temperate environment, which makes it a very peaceful area to live in.

The Southern area of Lusatia is Temperate to Warm, with the swamps making certain areas more damp, and the lake being a major source of rain.

### **Environment**

Lusatia is a very diverse environment, with rather fertile soil that allows farmers to harvest much crops when their harvest comes, and food that is high quality and healthy, especially for the standards of this world. The landscape is rather beautiful for both the people living there, and any potential visitors, and even the worst swamps are pretty stunning. The west and south are home to most of the Lusatian wildlife, which includes even animals like Kangaroos. The North and east contains animals that other nations also have, like Wolves, Bears, sheep, etc.

Some portions of Lusatian environment are Junkyards, which while it does ruin the environment somewhat, the people there are more than happy to remove their inventory to anyone who is willing to buy their junk, and rid them of the extra costs. Lusatia as a result has an actual recycling and Junk disposal industry, which makes them a popular target for any trash. It makes money, and gives people their raw resources back.

Lusatia is host to numerous animals and various wildlife that may or may not have migrated over to the country over the years, or stayed since before the nuclear apocalypse, and this list does not include all of them, as cows and pigs for example being not in a nation are an exception, not the norm. Predatory animals include various species of Eagle, which includes the legendary Golden Eagle, the bane of the Gothamite Rat, and principally the reason why Lusatia has such a low Rat population. There are also numerous other Avians that would take a long time to list, but more common ones are birds such as Crows, Pidgeons and Ravens.

Along with this there are Bears that tend to scare any wandering woodsman, but they mostly keep to themselves, and Wolves are also relatively common in the western fringes of the nation, which is not surprising due to proximity with the cursed nation of Libernocitis.
Stags, Reindeer and normal Deer are also common in the heartlands of Lusatia, and the Eastern forests, where hunters may hunt for their skins or meat.
There are also some more peculiar animals within Lusatia such as the Dingo, likely a breed of Wolf gone wrong, and Kangaroos, that reside in the western bushlands, and are joined by funny little animals like the Raccoon Dog that tends to live out in the general wilderness, like forests, or even sometimes the city, digging through your trash.
You may find animals like goats or sheep in mountainous areas such as the eastern mountains of Karpaty and Augusty.
You can also find animals like Frogs, Lizards, crocodiles and snakes within lands such as the southern swamps, where they tend to be most active. Their danger is mostly limited by the walkways through swamps being blocked off from animals.

## **Demographics**

### **Religion**

The main religion in Lusatia is known as Catholic Zionism, which is this world's version of Catholicism, It is the exact same, however the main difference is the way it is named in all honesty. There are slight doctrinal differences, but those are mostly due to the interpretation of the holy book by the clergy instead of a different book.

Other religions that exist in Lusatia, or the lack thereof, are Atheism and also Lutheran Zionism, Atheists being generally rebellious teens, and Lutherans being Easterners.

## **Government**

Lusatia is a Military Federal Democracy that operates under the purview of the elected leader of the nation, called the Fuhrer which in Lusatian is Przewodnik. A funny occurence is that when Adrian made this political reform to the nation, as he was still leader, he could be literally called 'Fuhrer King'.
While the leader of the nation is elected by the military personnel of the nation, your average person however can elect state governors, who are responsible for the wellbeing of the state they were elected in, and they manage the finance of schools and other such public works. Every 3 years, the state governors are elected based on their promises and political standing, with certain political parties being banned in the nation, such as Communism and Fascism.

The leader of the nation has at maximum two terms with five years each if he gets elected for those two terms. The rule of the leader can be extended for the event of a war until it ends.

The people who elect the Fuhrer are themselves military personnel. And these people could have been enlisted a long time ago, reservists, conscripts, or anything. All that matters is if you were in the military at one point.
This is helped by the fact that the Military is very inclusive to a reasonable degree, if you are physically disabled, they will find a job for you. To a point they allow the mentally disabled, but even that has its limits. For example, a person who is severely autistic or with downs could not possibly be given a job, as that is much too risky.

### **Foreign Relations**

Lusatia can mostly be described as a nation that keeps to itself. Though that may be a bold faced lie to anyone that is on the recieving end of the Lusatian war machine. But besides that, the Lusatian nation follows a rather pacifistic policy towards aggression, with an eye for peaceful resolution towards conflict unless their interests are being tampered with. Which is most of the time.

Lusatia is neutral or has bad relations with some nations on the continent, with the bad relations being mostly due to ideological problems or simply 'Those guys seem like dicks'. However, Lusatia has quite solid relations with its neighbours most of the time.
And that is due to equal military force, and or genuinely getting along, one of the nations Lusatia gets along with is Umi no Tani, But this relationship could be said to be more complex, as some immigrants that were from Umi no Tani, such as the Living Cyborgs, the Roboty, are said to have...less than amicable relations with their home country, due to the fact that they originally left due to the oppressive nature of Umi no Tani when it comes to social policy, and the military robots being unable to pursue their career.
Darath is a neutral nation towards Lusatia with some trade and relations between them, and they would rather it stay that way. The further away the Darathians are, the higher the average health score of the entire population is...

The next nation with good relations with Lusatia is Gotham and Astrostatzkia, who have a relationship of mutual destruction, where Gotham is consistently a power that could rival Lusatia's military might with their pure numbers.
Of course, this is not the only reason for good relations, as Gotham holds much resources that Lusatia finds valuable, such as their industrial content. Militarily both nations tend to cooperate on military matters, with good relations on both sides, Astrostatzkia is an ally for Lusatia for much of the same reasons, but for most of the time, they have been a historical ally, and also a more regional ally against Gotham.
Skall is an NPC nation that currently has horrible relations with Lusatia, as they are currently attacking the Lusatians, however, this is not personal hate, as Lusatia will return Skall to their previous, more peaceable form when the wasp princess will come back.

## **Infrastructure**

1. ↑ link to nation sheet

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