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General Overview of Great Marsinia

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The Tricolour of Prosperity
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Political map of Great Marsinia
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[b]Motto:[/b] 
"He who sweats more in peace bleeds less in war." (official, administrative)
"At the forefront of progress." (unofficial, civilian)
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[b]Population:[/b] 438.1 Million
[b]Area:[/b] 2,724,900 km²
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[b]Capital:[/b] Cynosura
[b]Largest City:[/b] Cynosura
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[b]Official Language:[/b] Marsinian
[b]National Language:[/b] Marsinian, Louverian, Aestlonian
[b]Demonym:[/b] Marsinian
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[b]Official Religion:[/b] [i]None[/i]
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[b]Government:[/b] Unitary Parliamentary Republic
- President of State: [i]Avenone Delaines[/i]
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[b]Bicameral Legislature[/b]: 
- Upper House: [i]Sénat de la République[/i] (Senate of the Republic)
- Lower House: [i]Grande Assemblée[/i] (Grand Assembly)
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[b]Origins:[/b] Proclamation of the Marsinian League (8th-12th March 1488)
[b]Establishment:[/b] Unification of the League into one entity (1st-19th January 1654)
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[b]Currency:[/b] Idole(s)
[b]GDP:[/b] $7,6trn.
[b]GDP per capita:[/b] $74,763
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[b]Drives on the:[/b] Right
[b]Calling code:[/b] +58
[b]Internet TLD:[/b] .ms

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[size=200][b]Great Marsinia[/size][/b]
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[b]Great Marsinia[/b], officially the [b]Grand Republic of Great Marsinia[/b] (Marsinian: [i]grande-République de la Grande Marsinie[/i]), is a sovereign state primarily located in Eastern Edith, encompassing all of the Marsinian peninsula and territories on either side of the Breeze river, extending all the way to the Aspyrean hills, and bordering the Elturian mountains to the north-west, Avarian Sea to the south-west and the Audithian Ocean to the east. Politically, it borders the Republic of Louveria to the north, the Framcosian Republic, Verdinsk, and Bristere to the west, and the Aspyrean Federation and Dappleshore to the south. The country's 28 integral regions (3 of which are autonomous regions) regroup a total population of 438.1 million, making it the second-most populous nation on the Edithian continent and the largest Edithian country in terms of landmass, measuring a total of 2,724,900 km² (1,052,089 sq mi). Great Marsinia is a [b]unitary parliamentary republic[/b], with its capital and seat of power in [b]Cynosura[/b], a colossal global city serving as the country's economic, financial and cultural centre, and having been dubbed by many experts as the birthplace of the first megalopolis in the world, regrouping other nearby metropoles like Haza, Raviste, Canicula and Reterica. Other major urban areas having reached world renown are Liny (for being a historical, industrial and financial centre), Adroega (home to the largest aircraft manufacturing ring in the world), Acalyse (headquarters of several NGOs), and most particularly, Aryanne (famous in pop culture for its bustling illegal underground racing circle).

[spoiler=Show history]By the end of the Iron Age, the peninsula what is now known as Great Marsinia had been occupied by the Marsins, a proto-Aestlonian people from north of the Breeze, with major thalassocratic and Aspyrean influence in the southern coasts of the region. It would be as such until 51 BC, with the various Marsinic tribes having been conquered by emigrating Framcosian conquerors from the west, creating a distinctive and unique Marsinic-Framcosian culture that laid the foundations of modern Marsinian language and its roots. The fall of the First Framcosian Empire would be met with the annihilation of any united authority figure within the region, instead leading to the creation of a vast nexuses of small mercantile but culturally rich city-states, and an Aestlonian Kingdom orbiting around the modern city of Aphynia. Over time, competition and rivalries at the hands of internal conflicts or foreign invasions would shatter the region's unity, and by 1011, Great Marsinia was divided into various warring feudal duchies, and the occasional maritime republic being founded where old city-states once stood.

In the High and Late Middle Ages, Great Marsinia was characterized by the unending wars between the various Marsinian duchies between eachother and as well as united against foreign invasions (War of 1118, War of the Great Leagues, Cynosuran-Liny War, War of 1355), aswell as the antipodean growth of the Audithian maritime republics, emboldened by the thalassocratic ideals of ages past, states like the [b]Republic of Reterica[/b], [b]Republic of Raviste[/b], and the [b]Republic of Cynosura[/b] would become essential in founding and repulsing piracy attacks from outside of the peninsula and protecting hinterland duchies from foreign invasions, aswell as permitting themselves to prosper not only in terms of trade and commerce, but also pioneer new artisanal technologies and grow to rival cities from outside of the peninsula. These little statelets permitted the rise of banking, paving the way to a sort of proto-Capitalism referred to as 'Marsinism', and would serve as East Edith's main trading hubs to North Edith and the Levantian continent, rising their prominence from an underdeveloped backwater to a state of prosperity and progress.

Such accumulated strength just so permitted the birth of a cultural and artisanal revolution, called the [i]Renaissance[/i], within the peninsula, with the coastal trade republics of [b]Cynosura[/b], [b]Raviste[/b], [b]Haza[/b] and [b]Liny[/b] being amongst the first of very few welcoming new ideals with open arms. Exported by the numerous merchants sailing from the Marsinian peninsula, the Renaissance brought to the rest of the continent and north Levantian regions a renewed interest in humanism, science, art, and exploration. At this time, local Marsinian culture flourished as even the hinterland duchies of the region received renewed recognition, producing famous scholars, writers, musicians, artists and erudites, many of whom would move to the extravagant courts of Marsinia. It was at in [b]1488[/b], during the early Renaissance, that Marsinia would see its first steps as an entity at the [b]Congress of Liny[/b], where a variety of representatives from the region vowed and proclamed the [b]Marsinian League[/b], a loose confederacy of various maritime republics and duchies allying themselves to resist foreign meddling in the region and to gain the upper hand against foreign competition.

In the late 17th century, as growth started to slow down and decline started to inch in, combined with foreign intervention, saw the fall of the Marsinian League from acclaim, shoving the region into a violent period of political upheaval in the forms of war, political intrigue, and religious turmoil. But despite all these setbacks, the merging of the rich [b]County of Liny[/b] into the powerful [b]Republic of Cynosura[/b], alongside steadfast effort from Acalysian diplomats, ushered the region back into the spotlight with the creation of a [b]Republic of Marsinia[/b] in [b]1654[/b] with its capital in Liny, utterly replacing the League that formerly claimed that name and destablizing the balance of power in the region. The further integration of various, smaller republics and counties led to an impromptu reunion that incidentally laid the foundations of one of the first democratic and egalitarian systems in Edith; such thing had originally been pushed by the representatives of smaller city-states, to Liny and Cynosura's dismay, but it soon turned out to be beneficial as a sense of Marsinian belonging could be felt in those residing in nearby, independent maritime republics, leading to the creation of unification parties, and later, the ratification of membership treaties for other city-states and duchies. It was also during this era that the growth of the Cynosuran city permitted her to overshadow her neighbours.

However, it would only be in the early 1800s that would see the unitary Marsinian experience bear fruits, as the [b]Revolutionary Wars[/b] brought by the southern Aspyrean Republic paved the way for the rise of nationalism and unification movements within Edith as a whole, bringing an end to the old era of decentralized politics and seeing a new Marsinia take shape after a succession of various tumultuous government systems in the wake of post-Revolutionary chaos; taking inspiration from the short-lived Transrhonian Republic and Transloric Republic sister republics, it culminated in the establishment of the unitary parliamentary system in [b]Cynosura[/b], one that is still in use today, making it one of the longest-lasting democracies in Edith. The unification of the Greater Marsinian region in the [b]1848 Treaty of Marsinian Sovereignty[/b] was met with grandiose applause from the people in the region, backed up by the Aspyrean and Aphynian governments, establishing the [b]Grand Republic of Great Marsinia[/b] as a [b]Great Power[/b]. During this period, Great Marsinia rose to prominence very rapidly by embracing the Industrial Revolution with the assistance of high government subsidies, and laws introducing deregulation and privatization, in a practice known as neoliberalism.

It was in the late 1800s and early 1900s that Great Marsinia soon reached her [b]military[/b], [b]economic[/b], and [b]political zenith[/b], becoming the financial and trade center of Edith, combined with a cultural impact and industrial output only matched or outdone by the respective dominant power in that category. Great Marsinia also established itself as a [b]global empire[/b], integrating the vast landmasses of the Marsinian peninsula's hinterlands, defeating the neighbouring Framcosian Empire on land and proving herself unredeemably as a great power by [b]going toe-to-toe with the Ponderosan Royal Navy[/b], and later engaging in an naval arms race against the latter.

Great Marsinia was also [b]one of the most prominent participants[/b] in [b]The Great War[/b], mobilizing millions of men and supplying most of the frontlines on the Western Front against Framcosian and Sicameor, aswell as participating prominently in the mountain ranges alongside Aspyrea, emerging victoriously, though at a huge cost; the Marsinian economy would take years to demobilize, aswell as pay huge sums of compensation as promised in the [b]Conscription Act of 1915[/b], leading to a relative decline over the years. The Great Depression would also worsen things, but the economy stayed afloat relatively unscathed compared to the ones of nearby nations. Great Marsinia was a member of the [b]Allied Powers[/b] during [b]The Second Great War[/b], taking a[b] very aggressive stance against the rise of Fascism[/b] in neighbouring Aspyrea and Framcosia, an initiative that was supported by the increasingly exposed Aphynian state, but ultimately powerless against the appeasement policy preferred by their allies' cabinet and the peaceniks of Edith. Great Marsinia declared war on Framcosia on the 1st of September 1939, the day Framcosia invaded Aphynia, and two days earlier than their allies Arcadia from the other side of Edith, massing troops on the Aspyrean border and marching alongside their Aphynian allies to the border. However, Framcosian forces crossing through the Kingdom of Bristere and Verdinsk would take the Allied forces off-guard, forcing their allies to capitulate and the remaining armies to form a frontline on the Marsinian border, leading to intense fighting on the rivers and the massif hills, before the [b]National Assembly reformed[/b] and the [b]intelligentsia gave up power to a military government[/b] after hundreds of thousands of casualties. Occupied Great Marsinia would be home to a lenghty period of brutal oppression and occupation at the hands of the Framcosians, with regular rationing, deportations, and massacres, leading over a period of four years to the death of over [b]seven million civilians[/b], while the rest of the country fought on in a war of attrition for 7 years.

The [b]liberation[/b] would come in 1948, with majorily Great Marsinian troops, accompanied by Arcadian and Ponderosan soldiers and supported by Resistance cells taking back the industrial region of Liny, as well as an allied task force landing in Aphynia after weeks of bombardment by the Marsinian and Ponderosan Navy. Notwithstanding, the cities of Aphynia, Adroega, and Aryanne were still all blown up by the retreating Framcosian and Aspyrean forces in the [i]retraite décisif[/i] (Decisive Retreat), in an attempt to permanently halt the Allied advance and put an end to Great Marsinia's status as a great power, causing what is considered to be [b]history's largest civilian exodus[/b] and [b]one of the largest man-made catastrophe[/b]. The intelligentsia and military would come back to a nation whose occupied half had been ruined by war and oppression, and launch [b]one of history's largest reconstruction effort[/b] in spite of it all, offering almost inflationary sums of money and controversial privileges to civilians willing to partake in the effort, which attracted investments from around the world and the influx of migrant workers, aswell as propulsed the nation into a rapid population boom.

This latter half of the 20th Century would see Great Marsinia hold[b] the greatest reconstruction effort in history[/b], simultaneously kickstarting Marsinian technological and manufacturing prowess as one of the best in the world with the creation of [b]High-tech architecture[/b], [b]Deconstructivism[/b], and [b]Bauhaus architecture[/b], combined with a rapid state-led economic recovery and extremely modern and high-tech landscape and the development of a robust welfare system, all within relative isolation and with a staunch refusal to pick sides in the ongoing [b]Cold War[/b] after the horrors of the Second Great War, serving as neutral grounds for both sides of the Iron Curtain to meet in. The [b]1998 Referendum for Unification[/b] was voted with an overwhelming yes in Aphynia, leading to the integration of Aphynia within the Grand Republic of Marsinia as an autonomous republic.[/spoiler]

Great Marsinia retains today her centuries-long status as a global center of [b]culture[/b], [b]art[/b], and [b]commerce[/b], aswell as newfound prestige as a world leader within the realms of [b]high-tech science[/b] and [b]industry[/b], standing as the [b]world's third-largest exporter of goods[/b]. She holds the continent's largest economy and the [b]world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP[/b] and [b]sixth-largest by PPP[/b]. She ranks [b]fourteenth on HDI[/b], [b]tenth on the Education Index[/b], [b]tenth in Life Expectancy[/b], and [b]first in Healthcare[/b] thanks to a robust universal health coverage system and social security measures. 

She still remains a valuable [b]Great Power[/b] in almost all aspects of global affairs, be it militarily, diplomatically, culturally or economically, bearing the world's [b]third-most powerful military[/b], and being a [b]permanent member of the International Assembly Security Council[/b] and an [b]official nuclear-weapon state[/b]. Great Marsinia is a leading nation in many international institutions, such as the [b]Edithian Development Community[/b], the [b]Group of Five[/b], the [b]Group of Twenty[/b], and a member with noteworthy contributions with the [b]International Investment Bank[/b], [b]Central Edithian Economic Development Fund[/b], [b]New Development Bank[/b], and [b]World Aid Program[/b].

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[url=INSERT-FACTBOOK-URL#ETY]1 Etymology[/url]
[url=INSERT-FACTBOOK-URL#POL]2 Politics[/url]
[url=INSERT-FACTBOOK-URL#GEO]3 Geography[/url]
[url=INSERT-FACTBOOK-URL#MIL]4 Military[/url]
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[b][u][size=150][anchor=ETY]Etymology[/anchor][/b][/u][/size]

The origins of the name 'Marsinia' has been lost to history, however experts and historians believe that it may have come to be a mistranslation of 'Marsinic' from travelling merchants or scribes, the term used to describe the proto-Aestlonian people that lived on the peninsula. Locals, having heard of the term from word of mouth, messengers or missionaries, might have unintentionally corrupted the name into something akin to Marsinia (most likely, Marsine), but over time, as the Marsinic had integrated notions of writing, scribing, and record-keeping within their culture, they settled for the term 'Marsinia' in order to refer to their peninsula.

The 'Great' in Great Marsinia was only added in the 1800s, as the expansion of the Marsinian realm reached the rest of the Audithian seaboard and the territories north of the Breeze, effectively making these areas part of a 'Greater Marsinia' born out of irredentism and conquest for Aphynia, and the improvement of education, alongside the assimilation of both old and new territories, made internal opposition close to naught.

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Great Marsinia is home to a plural multi-party political system. The number of competing political parties is at times large enough as to warrant a need to be prepared to negotiate with one or more other parties with a view to forming electoral alliances and/or coalitions to exercise power.

Since the end of the Second World War, the government of Great Marsinia has usually been juggled between six prominent parties and an extra two watchful opposition parties, amalgamated into more often than not two different competing, but relatively centrist coalitions, and a third middle-ground coalition that actively keeps both sides in check:
- A centre-left, social democratic coalition led by the Social Party, allied with the Communist Party and the Citizens' Movement.
- A centre-right, social conservative coalition led by the Republican Reorganization, allied with the Radicals' Movement and the National Party.
- A centrist, tent coalition usually led by either the Radical Party or the Centre, allied with most of the minor parties to effectively oppose legislative dominance from one of the two other parties.

Despite opposition in politics, the centre-left and centre-right actively collaborates in diplomatic affairs, aswell as attempts to guarantee relatively peaceful and uneventful transfers of power. For example, both coalitions work together to eradicate extremism ideologies amidst Marsinian politics, and share a similar agenda concerning diplomacy.

Marsinian politics is often categorized by a distinct lack of extremism and radical ideologies in its main roster of parties, aswell as the unanticipated creation of a centrist opposition coalition that opposes radicalizsation either sides of the political spectrum.

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[tr][td]Logo[/td][td]Name[/td][td]Political Alignment[/td][td]Ideology[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/PZQrcI9t.png[/img][/td][td]Social Party (Parti Social)[/td][td]Centre-left[/td][td]Social Democracy, Democratic Socialist, pro-Edithianism[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/bLNaAkgt.png[/img][/td][td]Republican Reorganization (Réorganisation Républicaine)[/td][td]Centre, Centre-right[/td][td]Christian Democracy, Liberal Conservatism[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/0lbkJC7t.png[/img][/td][td]Radical Party (Parti Radical)[/td][td]Centre, Centre-right[/td][td]Social Liberalism, Liberalism[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/wvWik6tt.png[/img][/td][td]Radicals' Movement (Mouvement des Radicaux)[/td][td]Centre-right[/td][td]Liberalism, Classical Liberalism, Direct Democracy[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/OH6l8jit.png[/img][/td][td]Communist Party (Parti Communiste Marsinien)[/td][td]Centre-left, Left-wing[/td][td]Communism, Social Democracy, pro-Edithianism[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/ebZd94jt.png[/img][/td][td]Citizens' Movement (Mouvement des Citoyens)[/td][td]Centre-left, Left-wing[/td][td]Socialism, Revolutionary Socialism, Eco-Socialism[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/HbsrMOlt.png[/img][/td][td]National Party (Parti National)[/td][td]Centre-right[/td][td]Christian Democracy, Social Conservatism, Regionalism[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][img]https://i.imgur.com/WpELJqkt.png[/img][/td][td]The Centre (Le Centre)[/td][td]Centre[/td][td]Centrism, Social Liberalism, Pacifism, pro-Edithianism[/td][/tr]
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[b][u][size=150][anchor=MIL]Military[/anchor][/b][/u][/size]

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