Empire of the Aesir

Nation Information
The Empire of the Aesir is a growing, developing, and established nation. The citizens of Empire of the Aesir work diligently to produce Oil and Lead as tradable resources for their nation. It is a mostly neutral country when it comes to foreign affairs. It will usually only attack another nation if attacked first. The Empire of the Aesir is currently researching nuclear technology for the use of nuclear power plants but believes nuclear weapons should be banned. Plans are on the way within Empire of the Aesir to open new rehabilitation centers across the nation and educate its citizens of the dangers of drug use. Empire of the Aesir allows its citizens to protest their government but uses a strong police force to monitor things and arrest lawbreakers. It has an open border policy, but in order for immigrants to remain in the country they will have to become citizens first. Empire of the Aesir believes in the freedom of speech and feels that it is every citizen's right to speak freely about their government. The government gives foreign aid when it can, but looks to take care of its own people first. Empire of the Aesir will not make deals with another country that has a history of inhuman treatment of its citizens.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Asgard. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing business followed by the Tourism industry.

Children as young as thirteen are conscripted into the armed forces, this ensures that if a war were to break out, there would always be a surplus of expertly trained soldiers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The national animal is the Timberwolf, which runs freely in the nation's tundra regions.

National History
According to public knowledge, the Empire of the Aesir was first and only incarnation of its people's power. This is true, in a way. The Empire of the Aesir is acutally the second governmental incarnation of the Aesirian people. The first was the Republic of the Aesir Draconis, although it's name deceived the world at large, it could not hide it's true face from its people. Despite being labled a 'Republic' officially, all power was held by one man, Ymir Draconis. Ymir wielded his power with absolute indiscrimination, the rich, the poor, the loyal, the disloyal all felt his derranged wrath the same. He raised tax rates to nearly 90%, he distributed what little power he didn't crave amongst not only those he knew were not only loyal to him but that he knew he could crush should they prove to be gaining too much popularity.

This wretched corruption of the Aesirian people continued for decades until Ymir was assassinated by his brother, Jerek Draconis. Jerek immediately set to restoring the power and rights of the people that were so violently denied to them by his now deceased and dis-owned brother. To further seperated himself and his new nation from his brother's tyrannical rule, he changed not only the name of the nation but his own as well. The Republic of the Aesir Draconis became the Empire of the Aesir and Jerek Draconis became Jerek Kyr.

The redistribution of power caused a temporary state of mass confusion as it happened quite literally overnight. This was expected however Jerek was not overly concerned as he knew the confusion would die down soon enough as the people learned the fate of their "beloved Republic and Chancellor". This proved to be correct and as Jerek had essentially created a new nation, the embargoes and black-listing the Republic of the Aesir Draconis had previously been subject to were erased. This prompted Jerek to seek an alliance with several more powerful nations to ensure both the safety and the prosperity of his people. After a month of serious deliberation, it was decided that the new Empire of the Aesir would seek acceptance in the New Sith Order. And there is where the Empire remains to this day.