Opulencia


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Nation Information

 * Opulencia is a very large and older nation at 65 days old with citizens primarily of Mixed ethnicity whose religion is Sikhism. Its technology is first rate and its citizens marvel at the astonishing advancements within their nation. Its citizens pay extremely high taxes and many despise their government as a result. The citizens of Opulencia work diligently to produce Wine and Lumber 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. Opulencia is currently researching nuclear technology for the use of nuclear power plants but believes nuclear weapons should be banned. The military of Opulencia has been positioned at all border crossings and is arresting all drug traffickers. Opulencia allows its citizens to openly protest their government, even if it means violence. It has an open border policy, but in order for immigrants to remain in the country they will have to become citizens first. Opulencia believes in the freedom of speech and feels that it is every citizens 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. The government of Opulencia will trade with any other country regardless of ethical consequences.

History of the Soviet Empire and later Opulencia
In 805 AD warring tribes in central Asia forced one tribe west, they stopped on the shores of a large lake and formed the first town, it grew and prospered and became renowned for its exquisite and ornate metal and gold work producing some of the most beautiful pieces of jewelry anywhere, this vast wealth that these people were constantly attacked and when the Mongols made there push west the city of Tirion, the city of the white towers, was nearly ransacked if it wasn't saved by the courageous warriors of the house of Feanor, the greatest of the smithing families that made Tirion so wealthy. The people of the city and the surronding towns proclaimed him Czar, and thus began the beginning of the Soviet Empire. There influence grew along with there wealth, however they were dedicated isolationists sitting out of world affairs and keeping the growing Russian empire around them out of there affairs was there only real priority.

In 1915 after a serious of horrible scandals there was a revolution of epic proportions within the massive city of Tirion and the now affluent and utopian towns that comprised the small empire. This revolution led to the end of the House of Feanor and the rise of a Socialist Democracy. The wealth and splendor of Tirrion now named New Leningrad, slowly faded as factory after factory turned the white towers to black and people of the Soviet Empire hardened.

However, this darkened state lasted for only 85 years for on the eve of the new Millenium Sauronis, son of a revolutionary leader, seized control of the Empire and proclaimed himself Czar, in the following months it was found that is family was a direct link to the famed House of Feanor and through military strength crushed his opposition and began to rebuild and glorify the now weakened empire. In 2006, the Empire joined the powerful New Pacific Order and prospered but all that ended as Great War I began, after bravely fighting 4 CoaLUEtion members the nation was destroyed and finally the deep vaults under the city of Tirion (restored to its original name in January of 2003) were broken and the vast horde of treasures were ransacked, cast out by the Order by "mistake" the people of the nation wandered, without hope and without meaning.

However, in the cold hard winter of that same year Sauronis, now a wandering factory worker, came upon something one day as he surveyed the ashes and ruins of the great city. Something of unprecedented value, the famed Sword of Feanor, crafted by the master himself it was said to have slain one of the Generals of the Mongol Horde. It must have been dropped when the raiders left and buried under the rubble of the city. Taking the sword, and driven by new purpose Sauronis gathered his people vowing to never fall into the trap of Communism and Socialism again, he formed Opulencia, laboring with what funds he could gather he rebuilt the town hall, not from marble as the original which overshadowed it, but of wood. The nation began to rebuild, entering on a different team the Coalition of Dark States gladly accepted the hardened and driven people of the new nation. Using loans and grants and calling upon the nations that the Soviet Empire helped bid at its height, within a month and a half the nation was at its former strength, the massive structures of the City rebuild and modernized the city of Tirion prospered, until the dark shadow of war fell upon the CDS and the people of Opulencia......

Government
Realizing the mistakes of the old Soviet Empire, Sauronis started out by forming numerous corporations to manage and produce things for the new nation, placing the power in the hands of the Board of Directors of those corporations, there Stock Holders, but ultimately the power falls to Sauronis, the self styled Hegemon of Opulencia, with a 51% ownership in all the major companies of the nation he controls nearly everything, but does little to interfere with the rapid growth, his only economic obstacle his the high tax rate which is used to fund the banking and technological research facilities that have put Opulencia on the map.