Holy Truidencian Empire

The Holy Truidencian Empire (Norwegian, Hellige Trydensiske Rike/Heilage Trydensiske Rike, Latvian: Svētā Trūdencijas Impērija, Faroese: Heilaga Ríkið Trýdensia), commonly known as Truidencia, HTE and (the now incorrect abbreviation) IT like its predecessors, is the direct successor to the iterations of Imperial Truidence through the ages.

The nation enjoys a position regional stability with many of it's neighboring countries being fellow members of the Medi Sea Forum.

Political System
The Truidencian political system is characterized by its three entities of legislative power: The elected Landsraad, The Riksraad and The Emperor. At the start of each month elections for Landsraad representatives are held, where any citizen may run for office. The landsraad’s primary purpose is proposing new laws and voting on internal issues that may arise. The Landsraad's decisions may however be vetoed by The Emperor, should he deem it absolutely necessary.

The names "Riksraad" and "Landsraad" are both of scandinavian origin. Their conception as institutions of Truidencia were inspired by the Dune universe's Imperial Landsraad and the historic aristocratic councils known as "Riksråd" that came to be in late-medieval scandinavia. Landsråd means "council of the land" and in turn "people", while Riksråd means "council of the realm", it can also be translated into "imperial/royal council". The letter Å was decided to be written as a double A to make it so that people not familiar with the letter Å would not get too confused and alienated while still retaining its foreign nature. While this leads people to pronounce their names incorrectly without knowing any better, it was deemed a necessary compromise.

Poltitical Parties
No polticial parties have officially been established as of yet. The houses are at peace.

Aggregationism
Aggregationism is a poltical thought developed by Discozoa. It was represented by The Aggregated Truidencian Party on CivClassic.

Zeldrinism
Zeldrinism(2020) is the name for the ever changing ideologies of Zeldronix. Neo-Zeldrinism(2021) is the name for the ever changing ideologies of Zeldronix. Neo-Neo-Zeldrinism(2022) is the name for the ever changing ideologies of Zeldronix.

Icyskism
Icyskism is a socio-economic concept developed by Icyski.

Pan-Truidencianism
Pan-Truidencianism is an ideology native to Truidencia that defines all those who are believers of The True Faith to be Truidencians, whether or not they are citizens or even live in Truidencia. There is a wish for them to eventually "return home" or make their current home a part of Truidencia itself. This movement was named "Pan-Truidencianism", the uniting of all truidencian peoples.

Troubled Beginnings
As a member of the UDF on Civclassic, despite having left the alliance during eotw, the empire was expected by many outsiders to continue its relationships with previous members. However this was not to be. An influx of new citizens as well as the return of previously inactive citizens made it so that a majority of the government confidently ended all hopes for renewed agreements in favour of going into sotw on their own.

While this was going on Zeldronix made agreements with, and joined what would become the Medi Sea Forum, wanting to settle alongside nations who shared his values and who would compliment the new direction Zeldronix wanted the nation to be headed.

National Policy
The internal practices of the empire.

National Flags
The Truidencian "State Flag" may only be flown by the government or with permission from the government, while the "Civil Flag" may be flown by anyone.

Illegal Flags
Officially there are no constitutional laws dictating whether or not certain flags are allowed to be flown or owned, besides the national flags.

Republican Flags

Despite lack of constitutional laws, it has been the policy of Emperor Zeldronix to discourage the usage of so called "Republican flags" commonly associated with the once proposed "Bezlandic Commonwealth", and the name "Republican Truidence" which was a joke on the name Imperial Truidence, along with various variations of "Bezland". These flags generally consisted of a horisontal tricolour with the colours red, yellow and white, starting from the top, sometimes with a blue cross saltire.

Imperial Truidence

The flag of the First, Second and Third Empire are forbidden by imperial decree, seen by the emperor as a symbol of reactionary elements of the nation and disaproval of his ascension to the throne.

Economic System
The Empire's economic system as conceptualized by Icyski is based on a theory of an economy where all members of society are encouraged to contribute to the nation’s internal flow of materials, goods and capital via "missions" and "quests" to aquire materials and items of varying degree of complexity. These are made available by the government are all paid upon completion with the empire's own national currency known as "Imperial Crowns", which can be used as legal tender within the empire.

Much of the point of the system is to reduce the pursuit of mining diamonds for the sole purpus of using it as currency when it could be used for better means, such as for tools and reinforcements, thus allowing more time to be spent persuing other and potentially more valuable goals that benefit the nation instead.

Miscellaneous Information

 * There is no official way of pronouncing "Truidencia". For example the first "I" is often left unpronounced and the ending "cia" has been known to be pronounced in various ways.
 * To some degree there is also no official spelling of Truidencia either.
 * The Emperor/Empress and their successors has traditionally been required to be Norwegian.

Bezism
Bezism is the official and state religion of Truidencia, no other religion is allowed. Ever after Emperor Bez committed sudoku and ascended from this mortal coil, the religion has been entrenched in truidencian society, including politics. The current pontifex of Bezism is GenericLaqey.

Empire Day / Rikets Dag
Empire day celebrates the creation of The First Truidencian Empire, and should be celebrated by every Truidencian. It is on the 1st of April.

Emperor Day / Keiserdag
This day celebrates the birthday of former Emperor Obtainable Spatula, and is celebrated on the 9th of June.

Heaven Day / Himmeldag
The 5th of August celebrates the birthday of Bez, coincidentally it also celebrates the creation of the entire world.

Imperator Day / Imperatordag
This day celebrates the birthday of Emperor Zeldronix, and is celebrated.

Milk Day / Melkedagen
Milk Day is triannual, on the 14th of october, the 17th of october, and the 3rd of june, so it was declared by Bez. On Milk Day Truidencians celebrate the IT milk in Lilo and Stitch and drink milk.

Bezmas / Bezaften
Bezmas is celebrated instead of the christian holiday Christmas. It is celebrated on the 24th of December.

Geography
The Empire's geography.

Indre Nidaros
District of Inner Nidaros.

Capitol: Nidaros

Ytre Nidaros
Province of Outer Nidaros.

Capitol: None

The Six Colonies
Crown Islands.

Capitol: None

Hyldor
The Realm of Hyldor.

Capitol: Andeon

Bogavarta
Capitol: TBD

Bivrost
The Holy City of Bivrost.

Capitol: Bivrost

Snowpeak
The Barony of Snowpeak

Capitol: Snowpeak

Vexillology & Heraldry
All will flock to our banners.