Montrium

The Kingdom of Montrium or known simply as Montrium is a nation in the continent of Arsine that is mostly surrounded by the Sea of Kjoldverd & the Arbornic Sea and borders the nations of Goonguard, Eiendom, Durlian & Scylding. Montrium itself is an enigma of a state and is usually shown to be a unstable state due to its populace not figuring out a self-governing state that can work on its people very effectively. The nation is going through a civil war and is highly unstable politically but even with this instability the continent the nation is on has been through a lot of history even before the nation was even founded.

Life in the Scar
The continent's history goes way back to the nation of Iron Scar when the nation was founded around Late May 2021. The nation of Iron Scar was a nation apart of the Huitca Commonwealth and was one of the 6 nations that were a part of the Huitca Commonwealth. The leader of the nation was Zonate, and while Zonate himself was not a political or diplomatic person he still led the nation poorly for 2 months with little development occurring to the land and only having established 1 town during the month of no activity the nation had grown to around 5 people in the singular town of Mongrim. Right before July a coup was declared by a rouge citizen within the nation to which it was promptly put down by CT-2312 who was the one to protect Zonate at the time of the coup.

From a Scar to a Freehold
Around July 15th MrPancake joined Stoneworks for the first time and decided to join Iron Scar for he saw many adverts and decided to join. Upon joining MrPancake soon realized that Zonate was in nowhere fit to lead a nation and this was amplified by a message he received from Grimmguard suggesting a coup on Iron Scar to which MrPancake said sure. Around July 16 MrPancake set off to form another town called Monzar around the eastern border as a military fort and started building a fort which will eventually become the base of operations for the mayor. MrPancake, Zonate, Grimmguard, & CT-2312 were at Monzar on July 21st around 11pm est and out of nowhere Grimmguard declared the coup and told Zonate he could peacefully step down or he shall take it by force. MrPancake surprised without warning on the coup still helped Grimmguard out and was the one to kill Zonate while CT-2312 remained at the sidelines. After this a 1 hour negotiation happened with the new nation of Grimmguard called The Iron Freeholds & the Huitca Commonwealth began. With the final judgement made as the new nation would be recognized but would remain a part of the Huitca Commonwealth.

Thereby making The Iron Freeholds a sovereign state on eldham.

The Great move East
With the Iron Freeholds established MrPancake was the 2nd in command without any special role and began to work on diplomacy and expansion to manifest the destiny of what he saw as his nation. Right when the nation was made MrPancake looked east to find Admero highly underdeveloped and only having 1 citizen within it and proposed an idea to them to sell them some chunks of land and they would become a vassal of the Iron Freeholds. This would become the Admero Purchase and would be the best deal in all of eldham History, buying out the nation for a mere 20K$ and annexing some of the border lands. after this MrPancake looked across the ocean and tried to purchase land from the Bai Federation but failed due to inadequate amounts of money for the land. Though this did not stop MrPancake, he heard from the leader of The Encan further north that they were going to be possibly vassalized by the new nation in the north called the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire and MrPancake decided to buy the peninsula before they were bought by the A.W.E. MrPancake then later contacted Redfirerex the mayor of the province and talked to Redfirerex about the purchase and settled on around 150k$. Now MrPancake didn't have this amount of money but decided to play the lottery that day and eventually won around 180k$ from the lottery and used 150k$ towards the purchase of the land and bought it on August 5th.

After this MrPancake became exhausted with a lot of the diplomacy and began to phase in and out between August to early November to work on irl subjects believing his work will be taken care of.

The November Troubles
After MrPancake left the nation for a month or so the nation started to lean towards Grimmguard for diplomacy and began to run still as most of the ingame actions were done by MrPancake. This rapid change in ideology from Isolation to becoming aggressive politically caused the nation to almost falter near November when Grimmguard who had talked with Plagatean diplomats formed the Maximus Liberation Army (MLA). The MLA's ultimate objective was to dismantle the nation of Ravenguard which was Grimmguard 's personal agenda. Grimmguard during this time ignored most of MrPancake's new internal policies which allowed the nation to develop property while Grimmguard was focused on the MLA during this time, and had claimed to have many sleepless nights. Though in the end Grimmguard' s plan with Plagatea failed when the A.W.E decided to leave the coalition war which caused a ultimatum from Ravenguard to occur which then prompted The Iron Freeholds to join Plagatea as a protectorate to avoid a war from occurring.

Though Grimmguard never left from his plan to ultimately remove Ravenguard from the map which left to his downfall soon after.

The End of an Era
The fate of the Iron Freeholds was sealed when the Sappho-Entente War occurred. The Iron Freeholds was a part of Plagatea which itslef was a part of the Sapphire Commonwealth. Although the reason for this war is mostly forgotten, it caused the collapse of Plagatea and most of its protectorate states, including the Iron Freeholds. With the freeholds being threatened with invasion from a multitude of nations, including Goonguard, Ahalia, Aristios, and Sylvania, a majority of its population abandoned their homes and fled the continent as a whole. This led to a total collapse of the nation, resulting in the creation 6 separate duchies, led by the remaining prominent figures of the region.

The Golden Age
Following the collapse of the Freeholds, the duchies of Seaterra, Pancakes, and Verskia reorganized themselves into the Dominion. The Dominion, led by igetnogirlslol, was an extremely centralized, authoritarian, and expansionist state. Within a few weeks of its creation, the Dominion went on to annex several surrounding duchies, Mongrim, and parts of Eiendom. The Dominion was seen as a very prosperous state compared to its predecessors, but that was not the case for many of the people living under it. The Dominion was quick to nationalize all of its profitable industries and was one of the few countries successful in establishing taxation for the majority of its population. However, the low wages for mandatory national labor for the citizens, and high living costs quickly drained the savings of its general population. This created a large disparity in the wealth of the average person and the upper class of the Dominion, and allowed prominent political leaders, including igetnogirlslol, to gain enormous wealth at the expense of the average citizen.

The exploitation of its citizens allowed the Dominion to subsidize the rapid development of its land. Until then the majority of the land was covered in thick jungles, with no infrastructure and few developed towns. Under the Dominion, the existing towns rapidly expanded, the jungle began to be cleared, the first ever intracontinental roads were constructed, and the nether highways were rebuilt and expanded. Combined its rapid expansion, Dominion Retail becoming the 3rd largest market on Eldham, and some of the richest people on Eldham residing there, the Dominion became a very appealing nation for immigration from the outside. This led to the Dominion having the largest population in the history of the region.

The Dominion maintained its rapid progress for several months, founding new cities, planning megaprojects, and attracting more immigrants. However, its authoritarian and expansionist natures threatened its neighboring nations, prompting the remaining independent states around it to form the AFE, a coalition for the mutual defense of all of its members against the Dominion. With the creation of the AFE, the issues with igetnogirlslol's leadership quickly became evident. Going against the advice of the whole assembly, igetnogirlslol gave into his overambition and attacked the AFE. The invasion of the AFE looked promising at first, with the Dominion's military being able to easily overwhelm the unorganized AFE militia in small border skirmishes. However, 2 days after the declaration of war, several large empires came to the aid of the AFE, including Goonguard and Anglunia, turning the extremely one-sided conflict into an impending world war.

The war came to be extremely unpopular in the Dominion, leading to the people speaking out against it. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, with people beginning to doubt the absolute dictatorship that was in place and complaining about the unfair conditions for the average citizen. Although igetnogirlslol tried to ignore the arising internal conflict, he was eventually forced to go into hiding for several weeks following an almost successful assassination attempt. Following his departure, Mr Pancake came into power in the Dominion, and the AFE disbanded soon after, no longer having to fear a warmongering dictator on their borders.

MrPancake was successful in mending relations with former members of the AFE and went on to accept a fair merge Ferrus Lupus and the Duchy of Abal. The following day MrPancake was able to incorporate Vulmire into the union, and went on to establish the Hegemony of Montrium, agreeing to exile igetnogirlslol for the humanitarian crimes committed under his reign.

Reunification of the States
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Government
The Government structure of the Kingdom of Montrium is a quite simple form of Monarchism. At the top you would have Sebby and MrPancake as Kings, though their powers are almost absolute on internal affairs with projects and their own towns to pass any treaties the Congress has to agree with a simple majority, if the Congress does not agree then the treaty is not ratified. Below the kings sit the Ministries these are the following;

The Prime Minister

Minister of Defence

Minister of Diplomacy

Minister of Infrastructure

Minister of Culture

The Prime Minister is a democratically elected position at the end of the month to serve the needs of the nation the following month. The Prime Minister has the option to veto any bills that the congress has a majority to vote in favor for, but it could be overruled by the kings.

The other Ministries called the Cabinet Ministers are appointed every month with the consultation of the Kings and the Province governors at the summons. The Kings and Province Governors will talk and eventually pick out the perfect ministers fit for the job for that month. The Province Governors are elected in their province right before the month to cycle in good administrators for the provinces and establish good local connections with the citizens of their province.

Culture
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