[u][b]Nation Name:[/b][/u] Oslad Federation

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[u][b]Brief Nation History:[/b][/u] 
The Oslad Federation is a creation of the last forty years. With the industrial revolution across the Old World came new ideas and philosophies about ethnicity, monarchy, and ideology. One of these new ideas was the brain child of a Glavidian Patriarch by the name of Boroslav Utrich; the idea of a united Osladian nation, no longer divided by the four ethnic groups that faced constant conflict in the region. Father Boroslav saw that, while divided, any of the current great powers of the Old World could overrun the fighting states and all of Oslad would face oppression by another Great Power. The only solution, in his mind, was a united Oslad under a monarch and parliament that restricted said monarch's power and kept balance between the warring culture groups. Boroslav took these ideas to the written form and the first manuscripts of "The Osladian Dilemma" was born. By 1806 the pamphlet spread to the intellectual circles in Modvona, Holsidan, Autrina, and Yugorvik, and soon 'Pan-Osladianism' ignited like a kindled flame. Pan-Osladianism became a growing idea among the Glavidian Priesthood, Pacifists, and the slowly growing Liberal movement especially within Autrina and Holsidan, who viewed the economic benefits of a united Osladian state to be too grand to ignore. 

The first Pan-Osladians with authority came to be the High-Prince of Modvona, [url=http://www.artclon.com/OtherFile/a_polish_nobleman_1637_XX_washington_dc_usa.jpg]Ulgrin II[/url]. Ulgrin rose to power in the Principality of Modvona only three years prior and quickly began to 'federate' the Modvonan state and seeking agreements with their brothers in the Kingdom of Yugorvik. The federalization of Modvona gave new life to the Pan-Osladian movement and in 1810 the previously rivaled states came to meet in St. Rustok, the capital of Modvona. 

The document the royals of the respective Osladian states came to write would forever be known in their history as 'The Treaty of Rustok' and stated that the Principalities of Yugorvik, Modvna, and the Kingdom of Autrina-Holsidan would unite into the Oslad Federation with both Grand Princes Ulgrin II and Grigory IV leading their lands, while the Autrina-Holsidan [url=http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_a-k/delaszlo/DeLaszlo_PortraitOfAMan.jpg]King Ottovan V[/url] would rule as Oslad's first united ruler. Across Oslad nationalists, liberals, religious zealots, and the common folk rejoiced in celebration and the day would go down in history as both the day of unification and the day of peace. 

Ottovan V's reign ended abruptly in 1816, only six years after unification, and saw the first election for the new monarch. The Modovan royal family of Zizetik voted for their Prince Ulgrin II while the Yugorvik's voted for for Grigory IV's heir apparent, Yuri I. However the final die was cast when the Autrina-Holsidan vote fell to the theoretical father of Pan-Osladian and Liberal thought, Ulgrin. 

Ulgrin II now, twenty years later, is 73 years old and many within the royal cabinet and the military foresee his passing. While he will go down as a unifier and a man who opened the Osladian markets to foreigners on a level never before seen, his death will cause another election for the new nation. Many worry of possible military intervention to prevent crisis, while others believe the election will go just as smoothly as the one before it. All that can be known, however, is that the future for the new Osladian Federation shall be one of struggle. 

[u][b]Government: Constitutional Monarchy/Federal Monarchy[/b][/u]

The Osladian Federation is a monarchy unified by a singular monarch elected by the House of Nobles. The House of Nobles consist of Forty Aristocrats and Nobility from Autrina-Holsidan, Modovna, and Yugorvik. Upon the ruling monarch's death a election is held in which the House chooses a new ruler in a month long debate period, during said time the nation is run by a Council of Ministers from the previous Monarch's cabinet and military officers. 

Within the petty kingdoms and principalities of the Federation there still remains a state of semi-autonomy in which they hold their own personal governments with minor/regional lords and ministers governing alongside the ruler of said region. 

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Spend points here
-- Population: 22,000,000 (3 points)
-- Martial Prowess: (4 points)
-- Cultural Unity: (2 point)
-- Navy: (6 points)
-- Colonies: (0 points)

[b][u]Foreign Relations:[/u][/b]

[color=0072bc][u]Boletarian Commonwealth[/u][/color] - Friendly/Minor Tensions - While culturally Oslad and the Boletarians are similar, tensions have been on the rise since the Federation took the Commonwealth's rival of Ville as a client state.

[color=1b1464][u]Ville Confederation[/u][/color] - Vassal - With a new, friendly, reigning government in Ville after the 1815 Treaty of Valish the Confederation has become strong under Oslad's wing. 

[color=f7941d][u]The Kingdom of Nehelenia[/u][/color] - Neutral - Due to their geographical location and importance as a Great Power, the Federation has tried to keep peaceful and neutral relations with the growing colonial and naval power. 

[color=662d91][u]Principality of Sordogne[/u][/color] - Friendly - Due to Sordogne being the homeland of the great Saint Glavidius, the Federation does all it can to keep strong ties to their religious motherland and often the Patriarchs sponsors pilgrimage to the capital of the Principality for Glavidian devotees. 

[hider=Religion(s)]Glavidian Orthodoxy - State Religion - Based upon the teachings of Saint Glavidius, a Latin scholar and missionary to what is now Oslad. Glavidian faith has slowly spread as a minor faith across the continent, however it stays strong in the North with its teachings of communal living. The authority of the faith is split between the four patriarchs of Modovna, Autrina, Holsidan, and Yugorvik with a Patriarchial Palace in Sarahek.[/hider]