Gotham

Gotham  commonly called a rat infested hellhole, is a nations in in the north. It is bordered in the southwest by Lusatia and southeast by Astrostatzkia. Gotham covers 377,190 square kilometers and has an estimated population of 135 million. Gotham is composed of 15 provinces, of which only one is really important.

## **Etymology**

The Nation of Gotham was once just a city that grew too powerful. Now its part of a very large metropolitan complex by the same name.

## **History**

### **The Swamp Days** *766 - 966 A.D.*

In a historical battle, Lancelot Wayne fights off large "ogres" to claim the swamps. Native Old Gothamites resent that statement(not that they exist anymore.) Given the relatively garbage swamp lands, for service in the great Crusade, the Waynes would be thoroughly entrenched in Gothamite History as the founders of Gotham. Most of Gotham's history in this time can be summarized in "The Grimdark Past, there was only War."

### **The Great Duchy of Gotham** *966 - 1266A.D.*

After several wars, the introduction of the Rat Papacy and the control of the church by the state led to Gotham Consolidating. However for its heresy the Lusatians would launch a somewhat successful crusade leading to the permanent loss of the provinces of Mazury, Podlasie, Vilnius and Courland. While sorely missed, the loss of noble life during this period allowed Gotham to further consolidate in strength. After the disasturous crusades, Gotham underwent a Renaissance.

### **The Renaissance** *1266 - 1553A.D.*

With The crusades de-escalating into a series of relatively minor border conflicts resulting in the treaty of Koln, Gotham was able to enjoy peace and trade for once in its existence. During this time, technology, culture, art, and the population boomed.

### **The Land of the Free** *1553 - 1936A.D.*

Gotham would continue to grow in power and slowly but surely grow in autonomy as the Astroskians suffered from conflicts with the Lusatians. Eventually fearing the collapse of their empire, the Astroskian sent troops to occupy Gotham to prevent a future rebellion in 1776, the Gothamites quickly used this opportunity to trap the Astrostatzkian garrison sent to them, and whittle it down to prepare for the eventual Astrostatzkian invasion. Then they fought for independence, supplied by the Lusatians and winning it soon after. During the Industrial Revolution, Gotham's economy and populace soared in numbers. Owing to the historic population which even in the current day Gotham hasn't reached yet. There were worries about lacking enough land for the growing population, and so Gotham was much more eager to start a war with its neighbours than ever before, including Lusatia and Astrostatzkia. Due to alliances with the Dwarf Kingdom to the south of Astrostatzkia, they were originally called in to help subdue them for their gross terrorism against the Dwarf Archduke. And so Gotham went to war, and would soon find out what modern war was really like. Eventually the war ended, with no real victor on each side, and they all signed a treaty to stop fighting during 1918.
Post war though the populace was weary, and the war was most definitely not worth it. After the war, Gotham and Lusatia, due to their poverty after this disastrous war, decided to grab as much land as they could. 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.

### **The Collapse***1936 - 1943A.D.*

Due to the political climate during these times, the Astrostatzkians enjoyed much mayhem in their efforts to subdue their neighbours. They essentially took over lands as far south as Emeros, and began integrating these nations into their war economy. Soon, they would target the nations of Gotham and Lusatia after they realized their plans. Allowing for the Second Northern war.
Armed to the brim with Anarchism the Astroskian forces swept though the Gothamite lands, attacking through their relatively undefended lands, which had before the war, been fortified against any attacks done on them. The New Astrostatzkian Heavy Tanks designed by Niovalla were able to actually break through these fortifications, and maneuver around it by attacking the corners first. After the forts were taken, the Gothamites were on rout, and had been losing battle after battle, with their relatively unmodern army and poorly led army, in comparison to their enemy, which used armour and aircraft for almost all operations. The Lusatian expeditionary force which had much more armour and planes attached to it was also wiped clean from the field during battles with Astrostatzkia, though not due to faults of their equipment, but their doctrine. The Lusatian Light 7TP's and 9TP's were relatively good tanks and were even exported to Gotham, but were unable to actually face the Astrostatzkian heavy and medium tanks, leading to their defeat. The Astrostatzkian Airforce was able to operate freely and bomb retreating Gothamites and Lusatians during this time, and this allowed them to easily take over the country in a few months.

Any remaining Gothamite soldiers were forced into exile and or into partisan groups for the rest of the war, armed with Lusatian equipment. But during the liberation of Gotham in 1942, the Gothamite soldiers had shown considerable tenacity, with proper equipment, tactis and leadership, with leaders such as the legendary Field Marshal John Gordon, who is the ancestor of the modern day Commisioner James Gordon, his Leadership was one of the best in the entire war, with his pioneering of the modern use of SPGs, Tanks and Airstrikes to apply destructive firepower quickly upon one part of the front line in order to completely cripple enemy resistance and penetrate through enemy lines using motorized infantry. During the peace treaty of 1943, Gotham managed to keep its lands taken during the Interwar Period, along with Lusatia, in exchange for Astrostatzkia being relatively unpunished to prevent such a war from happening again.

### **Post War***1943 - PresentA.D.*

With Lusatia and Gotham as two war weary nations, they agreed that people can change and the killing should stop, for what was the price of a mile? Far too much in this case. Signing treaties of friendship and economic cooperation, they established the beginnings of they great relationships that continue to this day, and then the nukes fell.

### **We Eat Rats Now** *Present - 214A.D.*

Times were tough in the post apocalypse, and rats were big, fat, and juicy. So Gothamites integrated rats into their pallete, and did some cool things like sending the first people back into space, pushing paperwork, and mugging provinces for their levies till the death of the empire. Life in Gotham is good.

### **Climate**

The climate of Gotham is temperate with a tendency toward being cool due to its proximity to the Northern Sea.

### **Environment**

There are a shit ton of giant rats. Like seriously, way too many.

## **Demographics**

Gotham is composed of like 90% Gothamites.

## **Infrastructure**

1. ↑ link to nation sheet

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