Albion

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Territory controlled by Albion in dark green

**Albion** (Albanese: *Alba*, and formally *Cymru*) is an island country in Europe. It is situated in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and is bordered on the northwest by the Morimaru Sea, extending from the Arctic Circle in the north towards the Britannian Strait and mainland Europe in the southwest. Spanning an archipelago covering 315,159 square kilometers, Albion consists of two main "home islands" (*ynysoedd cartref),* Britannia and Hibernia, alongside over six thousand smaller islands, including the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney, and the Northern Isles. Llundain is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Caerdydd, Mona, Dulyn, Eborakon, Eidyn, Ictin, and Camulodunon. Albion is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. Albion is divided into 47 administrative and eight traditional regions. The Greater Llundain Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 35.9 million residents.

Albion was probably first inhabited 30,000 years ago by modern humans, who crossed onto the isle of Britannia via a land bridge from the European mainland during the Ice Age. Until about 16,000 years ago, Britannia and Hibernia were connected by an ice bridge and prior to 9,000 years ago, it retained a land connection to the continent, with an area of mostly low marshland joining it to what is now Dania and the northwestern provinces of Rome. The Albanese archipelago became an separated from the European mainland at the end of the last glacial period when sea levels rose due to the combination of melting glaciers and the subsequent isostatic rebound of the crust.

The Celts arrived in Albion sometime during the Iron Age. They migrated from the land of Gaul in mainland Europe (roughly the present-day Roman province of Gallia), displacing the prior Bell Beaker culture, spreading the Celtic language, and spawning the Gaelic Albanese ethnic group in the process. The first written mention of the archipelago was made by Greek navigator Pytheas, who explored the coastal regions of Britannia and Hibernia around 325 BC. Julius Caesar also wrote of Albion in about 50 BC after his two military expeditions to the island in 55 and 54 BC. The failed invasion during 54 BC is thought to be an attempt to conquer at least the southeast of the Albanese archipelago. To avoid a future Roman invasion, Albanese fiefdoms convened and agreed to pay tribute to the Emperor of Rome to avoid future invasions. Further contact and trade with Rome introduced to Albion Roman law, philosophy, architecture, and calligraphy. Between the 4th and 9th centuries, the fiefdoms, clans, and petty kingdoms of the Albanese archipelago became unified under an emperor of the Gaelic Dynasty, and his imperial court based in the region of Catuvellauni. Beginning in the 12th century, political power was held by a series of military dictators (*dugiaid*) and feudal lords (*arglwyddi*), enforced by a class of warrior nobility (*marchogion*). After a century-long period of civil war, the country was reunified in 1603 under the Cornish Dukedom (*Cernywaidd Dugiaeth*), which enacted an isolationist foreign policy and subsequently underwent a period of prosperity and cultural renaissance. In 1854, a Nagamasan fleet forced Albion to open trade to the East, which led to the end of the dukedom and the restoration of imperial power in 1868.

In the Herewald period, the newly-constituted Empire of Albion adopted an Eastern-modeled constitution and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization. Successive military victories in wars against Rome in 1895, Buryatia in 1905, and Jurcheny during World War I, confirmed the status of Albion as a great power alongside the eastern empires. Amidst a rise in militarism and overseas colonization, Albion fell to totalitarianism, invaded Rome in 1937, and subsequently entered World War II as an Axis power in 1941 upon the signing of the Tripartite Pact with Jurcheny and Nanyue. After suffering defeat in the Atlantic War and two atomic bombings, Albion surrendered in 1945 and came under a seven-year Allied occupation, during which it adopted a new constitution and began a military alliance with Nagamasa. Under the 1947 constitution, Albion has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature, the National Diet.

Albion is a developed country and a great power. It is a member of numerous international organizations, including the United Nations, G20, OECD, and the Group of Seven. Its economy is the world's third-largest by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest by PPP, with its per capita income ranking at 36th highest in the world. Although Albion has renounced its right to declare war, the country maintains Self-Defense Forces that rank as one of the world's strongest militaries. After World War II, Albion experienced record growth in an economic miracle, becoming the second-largest economy in the world by 1972 but has stagnated since 1995 in what is referred to as the Lost Decades. Albion has the world's highest life expectancy, though it is experiencing a population decline. A global leader in the automotive, robotics and electronics industries, the country has made significant contributions to science and technology. The culture of Albion is well known around the world, including its art, cuisine, film, music, and popular culture, which encompasses prominent greannan, beochan, and video game industries.