Atlantis (Ultimate Earth)

**TAtlantis** is an underwater kingdom, and the home of the Atlanteans. King Orin is the current king of Atlantis. It is a constitutional monarchy. Actually the size of a continent, it is one of the earliest and most highly advanced cultural and magical societies on Earth; the capital city is Poseidonis. Other city-states are Shayeris, Tritonis, Nanauve, Neptunos, Lemuria and Crastinus.

## History

### The Great Deluge

Founded by King Atlan, the empire of Atlantis at its peak was the most powerful and technologically advanced nation on the planet. Eventually Atlantis developed a series of new technologies centered upon their greatest achievement - the discovery of an inexhaustible source of energy, allowing the creation of machine walkers, advanced aircraft and the powerful Trident of Atlan. During a test of the Trident, a massive energy pulse violently radiated outward and destroyed Atlantis, causing it to sink into the sea with great loss of life.

### Warring states period

As a result of the disaster, Atlantis and its empire splintered into numerous city-states, Soon after, the city-states began to wage wars, with atlantis so large and diverse that several cultures and ethnicities emerged and survived to fight for independence and dominance. Which eventually led to emergence of the kingdoms of Poseidonis, Tritonis, Lemuria, Xebel, and Kingdom of Tha-Korr. Other breakaway factions such as the Kingdom of the Deserters, the Fishermen, the Trench, the Brine, and the Missing Kingdom were also formed.

As time went on, the seven Kingdoms would eventually undergo significant changes, either surviving, evolving to a new form, collapse or completely die out: Atlantis and Xebel would survive to the present day and retain the original characteristics of the ancient Atlanteans. The Kingdom of the Fishermen evolved to become fish-like and are considered adverse to conflict.

The Kingdom of the Brine evolved into a crab-like and brutish people. The Kingdom of the Trench has regressed into savage creatures incapable of speech or intelligent thought. The Kingdom of the Deserters died out as the Sahara became a desert. The Missing Kingdom was reported to have completely disappeared, leading to it being called "lost."

### Unification Wars

Over time, the monarchs of Poseidonis became increasingly powerful and began to unite and subjugate the numerous kingdoms and peoples of Atlantis, over the course of twelve centuries. They left some kings and nobles in power, however, as long as they submitted to Poseidonis. Eventually one king the unification wars in victory and crowned himself Atlantis's first monarch, not to leave the capital city until his death.

Despite Poseidonis's victory, the earth monarchs were unable to establish a centralist or authoritarian regime due to the kingdom's sheer size. As a result, Atlantis became a confederate monarchy, divided into numerous semi-autonomous provinces, with monarch acting as such in a unitary manner over all the ruler's territories through a system of councils. This left only seven independent kingdoms left in all the ocean.

### War for Atlantis

King Orm attempted to declare war on the surface world and reuniting the Seven Kingdoms while doing it, but he failed and was arrested by Aquaman. After the war, the Seven Kingdoms reunited back into one.

#### **The Modern Era**

Although the submerged continent grew and prospered, the civilizations of the surface world remained largely ignorant of Atlantis for many centuries. In recent years however, Atlantis has found itself pushed to the forefront of public awareness. Their most notable monarch to date, King Orin, reintroduced Atlantis to the modern world when he took the sobriquet, Aquaman, and became one of the founding members of the famous Justice League of America.

Atlantis has never been a nation to know peace for very long. Over the span of four-thousand wars, it has seen conflict from the surface world, from within its own borders and even from beyond the stars.

## Geography

### Languages

The major languages in Atlantis are Atlantean, Xebelllian, Punic, Phoenician, Minoan, but due to their recent increasingly integration into the surface world.

### Government and Politics

Atlantis is a confederacy, and as such it has a central government as well as regional governments which administer territories outside the capital of Poseidonis. The central government is formally headed by the atlantean monarch whose role has historically fluctuated between a powerless figurehead and an imperial ruler with *de jure* autocratic powers. The monarch is assisted by the Grand Vizier, the Royal Council of Atlantis, ministers, and the extensive bureaucracy of Poseidonis.

The local governments throughout Atlantis are highly diverse. Atlantis is a composite monarchy, also nowadays referred to as a confederation of individual polities or kingdoms ruled by one king. Atlantis is divided into subnational kingdoms, provinces, prefectures, and semi-autonomous city-states such as Shayeris. These are led by kings, governors, prefects, chief magistrates, magistrates, and mayors who can govern their lands mostly as they see fit. Many offices in Atlantis, including those of subnational kings and governors, can be passed on hereditary.

In addition, Atlantis has no unified system of laws, as the component realms of the crown were not united politically except at the level of the king, who ruled over each autonomous polity according to its own laws, raising funds under each tax structure, dealing separately with each parliament, particularly the Kingdom of Poseidonis, the Kingdom of Tritonis, the Lordship of Nanauve, the Kingdom of Neptunos, Kingdom of Lemuria, and the Principality of Crastinus.