Stories of The North Pacific feature: The Queendom of Morheim
For the twelfth volume of Stories of The North Pacific, the Executive Staff of the Ministry of Culture has chosen to feature: The Queendom of Morheim. Congratulations to its author, Morheim!
As a featured author, Morheim is welcome to display the Stories badge in their signature and in the featured dispatch:
The factbook will remain pinned in the WFE and linked in the News Box until January 25th. It is also reproduced below for your convenience. Note that this factbook consists of many in-game dispatches and has complex coding that cannot be accurately reproduced on the forum. I strongly encourage you to look at the original.
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Queendom of Morheim
The Queendom of Morheim , is a Constitutional Monarchy in The North Pacific. The nation is rather unique in that the crown passes down through the female line. The capital and seat of government is St. Pauli , this is also centre of the nations religion, Maism and also the largest city.
Morheim has a free-market economy which is centred around many high tech industries which are heavily involved in research and development. The government provides all its citizens with free education and heavily subsidised health care. The government invest heavily in green technologies and aim to be a carbon neutral nation by 2050
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Etymology
The nation takes it's name from the ancient Gaelic of MÓR meaning "Great" and "HEIM" meaning "Home". The nation recieved its name after the people of the nation arrived on a fleet of some 400 boats under the last King of Morheim Peter I in 903 AD. Upon landing in a new land intent on carving out his own Kingdom he created a land in which all were cared for and protected. During this time contact was lost with their homeland and Morheim became a safe haven, therefore was called the Great Home.
History
The people of Morheim originated from the Kingdom of East Moreland. The King of East Moreland's younger brother left in 900 AD to carve out a Kingdom for himself and in 903 AD his great fleet landed in present day Morheim and soon subjugated the locals. Prior to Peter's arrival the area has only shown evidence of basic, mainly nomadic settlement, however it is thought that Peter brought with him many artisans and they soon established the city of Thale. The original settlers of Morheim are thought to have been escaping religious strife as they have no evidence of following the same religion as those of East Moreland (The Cult of Helus), instead they appear to have combined the religion and that of local customs to form "Morism" translated to mean The Great Faith.
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The Birth of the QueendomIn 916AD King Peter I died and left his Kingdom to his only child, Princess Tabitha became the first Queen of Morheim and changed the nations name from the Kingdom of Morheim to the Queendom. The nation also went through a period of religious enlightenment as the faith of Morism was formalised, one of the teachings of the new religion was that the royal blood of the Barren family was blessed by God, and that as a child is born in blood a woman is best to pass on this blessed blood. Since that moment the crown has passed from mother to daughter, however a male may inherit if no female heir is alive.
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GovernanceIn 1765 Queen Sarah III faced a popular revolt after some of her decisions angered the people. In 1766 she meet six citizen leaders of the rebellion in Hillton and discussed reforms, it was agreed to establish a system by which every four years the people choose a council of 600 citizens to put forward laws. The Queen retained the right to control the Armed Forces and deal with foreign affairs. The People's Assembly would appoint a Prime Minister who would lead the nation's legislature.
Any Councillor may propose a law for debate, once debated this is voted on and if passed sent to the Queen to be signed into law, the Queen however can refuse to sign and instead instigate a popular referendum but must abide by the majority decision of this.
