[b]Nation Name:[/b] The Republic of Thuria. [b]Head of State:[/b] Prime Minister Lawrence Garby. [b]Denonym:[/b] Thurian. [b]Brief Description:[/b] Thuria is a relatively new parliamentary democracy, having originally been founded from a loose colony of privateers, pirates, and political outcasts in the early 1800's. Thurian's value individual freedom highly, and are distrusting of the accumulation of centralized power. While this lends itself well to an industrious spirit, and a strong bent of patriotism, involvement in foreign affairs is frowned upon. Thuria is a reluctant actor in The War, and their interest is generally limited to furthering their own station within the world, and nothing more.