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**THE LITEVIAN COMMONWEALTH**

**Classification:** 
Elective monarchy

**Government:**
Centre-right Traditionalists

**Currency:**
Litevian Letis

**National Animal:**
White stork

**Motto:**
"The integrity of a nation relies on unity."

**Continent:**
Europe (Entirety of the Baltic States and Poland)

**Brief History:**
Sandwiched in between Germany and Russia, the Litevian Republic has always stood in a precarious position in the volatile political intrigues and territorial disputes of central and eastern Europe. The Commonwealth is not inconsiderable in size however – its lands stretch from the Gulf of Finland to the shores of the Vistula, with Tallinn its northernmost city and Krakow the southernmost. Formed from a union of the Baltic States and the Poland following the Soviet Union's collapse, the Commonwealth has a unique system of governance; the elective monarchy. The ruling King of the Commonwealth is elected by a parliamentary body known as the Grand Council, which holds the real political power in the nation – in the past several kings have been dismissed from office by the Council which felt that their rule was proceeding counter to the best interests of the Commonwealth.