Neralia

Neralia, officially the Directorial Republic of Neralia, is a country primarily in Western Europe with some small territories located across the Indian Ocean. Its European territory is located on the Nerarva peninsula. Its overseas provinces comprise the Socotra Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Musandam and Qeshm. Neralia is bordered in Europe by Spain to the South and by the United Arabs Emirates in Asia. The country´s European land covers 524,965 km2 (326,198 sq mi)and 538,810 km2 counting all of its provinces. With a population of 155,862,717 inhabitants (155,311,922 in Europe), Neralia is the most populous European country and the ninth most populous in the world. The capital and largest city are Berblecow with a population of 17,5 million inhabitants.

Neralia has been for centuries a centre of art, science, and philosophy. Neralia was the world's first industrialised country and has been considered a great power as early as the 14th century, having the 4th largest military expenditure and being considered an official nuclear-weapon state. It is the second-largest country by national wealth, it is the country with the largest economic surplus by current account balance, has the largest foreign-exchange reserves and the third-largest economy by GDP at market exchange rates. It is a highly developed country, has a high/income economy, and continuously ranks high in measures of socioeconomic performance such as life expectancy, quality of life, healthcare, and education.

Neralia is a member of numerous international institutions, including the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, the Council of Europe, the G7, the G20, NATO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Interpol and the World Trade Organization (WTO) the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and many more.

Prehistory and antiquity
It is believed anatomically modern humans came in large waves to the Nerarva Peninsula around 48,000 years ago. The Gataganean culture, a Bronze age culture that inhabited the entirety of the peninsula, is believed to represent the first wave of human settlement. The Gataganeans would form city-states near and throughout the coast of the Bay of Biscay and the Celtic Sea around 1700 BCE. Neralia would be the home of the Sea people, warriors from the Gatagan confederation who would constantly raid the Eastern Mediterranean and eventually cause the Late Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BCE). Celtic people would come in the 6th century and mix with the inhabitants living in the eastern area of Neralia.

Formation of the Niorlendan league and Roman Criltania
Romans would inadvertently invade the Neralian city-states located in the current-day province of Criltania in 172 BC. This event would lead to creating the Niorlendan confederation, a military union between the remaining Neralian city-states to avoid any further Roman expansion into their territory and defend more effectively against Yibutian horse raids. It was during the Roman Iron Age of Europe when the Neralians culture, philosophy and science would start flourishing. Despite the Roman attempts to conquer the rest of Neralia, the Niorlendans and Yibutians managed to successfully defend themselves from the Romans on every occasion, maintaining the same borders until the Niorlendan invasion of Crilatania in 413 BCE.

Sildaphrian period and Christian-Niorlendan wars
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Yibutians would gradually sedentarize, eventually joining or getting conquered by the Niorlendans. While there was not an established ruler, the house of Sildaphria, dukes of Tarep, would become the most dominant nation and the center of political affairs; they would also lead to an invasion towards Yibutian tribes, as well as helping to protect the rest of states against the multiple Viking and Christian attacks.

This period would be characterized by the rejection of Christianity among the northern lands, which opted to continue following their own pagan religions, nevertheless, Christianity was still admitted and largely followed by those living in the past province of Criltania. The historical importance and the catholic demographic of Criltania caused a tense relationship with the Christians, that would later culminate in a number of wars between the Niorlendan states and a series of catholic orders who aimed to reconquer the region of Criltania and fully Christianize the Nerarva peninsula. Most of these wars were a resounding success for the Niorlendans who managed to successfully defend themselves. The embarrassing losses and the provocative impalation of crusader knights near the coast of the Biscay Bay, would result in a full-scale invasion of the Niorlenda league, in which most of the prominent catholic states of the time such as the Kingdom of France, the Papal States, the Holy Roman Empire, the kingdom of Sicily or the Kingdom of Navarre among may other, would all get involved in this war. While it was a long and bloody war, it ended in a Crusader Victory and the establishment of the Kingdom of Neralia.

Neralian Kingdom
The crusader state of Neralia was founded in 1291, it would be historically known for being a highly decentralized feudal kingdom ruled by a Latin aristocracy and in which the authority of the king was barely felt. The forceful introduction of Christianity and the efforts to repress the Yibutian rebellions led to the beginning of the Neralian Dark Age, which was characterized by the impoverishment of the population as well as the loss of most of the ancient culture and Philosophic and Scientific Knowledge that was forcibly displaced by Christian values.

Secret societies and sects would start emerging across cities, these would generally oppose Catholicism and the ruling system and would think of the Niorlendan period as a "Golden Age" when the culture, arts and sciences of Neralian society were at their peak in contrast to the oppressing and detached kingdom they were living in. These groups would keep and preserve numerous ancient greek and early roman scripts, several of these would being later considered important historical records for the re-construction and understanding of the Ancient Greek philosophy, society and culture as well as ancient Mediterranean in general.

Neralian Council
The imposition of Christianity, the impoverishing feudal system, and the forced acculturation of Yibutians and Anglo-Celtics would leave to heavily deteriorate the social situation, resulting in general unrest in the Kingdom. The deadly Black Plague would be the last straw for the peasants who began multiple risings across the Kingdom between 1359 and 1366, these against the dominant aristocrat group. The rebellions turned out to be a resounding success since the vast majority of the soldiers were serves themselves, thus resulting in Feudal Lords lacking the support of their soldiers. This revolution would be one of the most deadly in history, lasting 4 years and resulting in nearly all of the aristocrats and counterrevolutionaries killed. A brief period of anarchy would take effect after the execution of the King of Niorlenda; Nevertheless, as soon as the revolutionary process was over and the situation stabilized, inhabitants from the eastern cities of the kingdom, inspired by the ideas of Greek Democracy, accorded for each city, former rural fiefdom, or tribe, to bring two representatives who would represent their respective interests in the new Neralian Council; this charge was honorific and would be renewed every 3 years. The council of representatives found a shared interest in abolishing the tributary system, replaced by a tax system that saw a more efficient redistribution of the stored wealth, mostly destined for the construction of roads and the formation of a competent army; In addition, there was a common objective in stopping the Latinization process and introducing concepts such as "equality before the law", "freedom of expression", "human rights" and the division of powers. While this system firstly showed numerous flaws, the economy and the condition in which people lived, increased exponentially. This revolution and the ideas it brought, would be a prominent factor and inspiration for the French revolution and the later revolutions of the XX centuries.

In its social regard, there was a huge loss of ethical and moral codes in the Neralian society, with elements like religion, manners, etiquette, social norms and folkways essentially missing; It started to be fairly common for people to only wear their undergarments during hot days or even the practice of sexual intercourse in the streets. Although on the other hand, the revolution resulted in a strong rise of Neralian nationalism, being one of the first cases of this in all of Europe.